Lord God, holy lover of my soul! When you are near, I rejoice! You are my glory and the exultation of my heart. You are my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble. Set me free from all evil passions, and heal my heart of all wayward desires. Cure and cleanse me, that I may be ready to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing fuller or better in heaven and earth, because love is born of God, and can only rest in God above all created things. Let me love you more than myself, and love myself because of you, and in you love all. Amen.
Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471). Revised from Prayers Ancient and Modern.
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